fine print

[ fahyn ]

noun

1. printed matter in small-sized type.
2. the detailed wording of a contract, lease, insurance policy, or the like, often set in type smaller than the main body of the document and including general restrictions or qualifications that could be considered disadvantageous:

   Make sure you read the fine print before signing.

fine print

noun

1. matter set in small type, as in a contract, esp considered as containing unfavourable conditions that the signer might overlook Also calledsmall print

Other Words From

• fine-print adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of fine print¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

Also, keep in mind that most models have a weight maximum and an age minimum, so be sure to read all the fine print.

From Popular-Science

Becerra said “sort of the fine print here — how do you settle disputes” would be covered in other rules the departments will issue before January.

From Washington Post

In the fine print of the committee’s letter, it states that officials needed to provide a log explaining why a document was considered privileged.

From Voice of San Diego

The fine print in Gloria’s budget on his proposal to cut some police overtime spending leaves plenty of doubt that those cuts will ever occur.

From Voice of San Diego

It was September 2019, and that business, laid out in the notice’s fine print, felt to Lord like a free fall.

From Washington Post

Of course there is FINE PRINT somewhere buried in the website stating that everything is fictional but that is difficult to find.

From The Daily Beast

And then the fine print: On March 1, 2013, the government of Israel will begin work.

From The Daily Beast

With the new display, he said, “Surfing the Web can be like a fine print magazine.”

From The Daily Beast

Wade into the fine print and the deal seems even more disappointing.

From The Daily Beast

Fine print is not intended to annoy, but rather to spare you any humiliation.

From The Daily Beast

The home was sold—by fine print—hit was bid in by Romine fer about the price of his bill and the costs.

From Project Gutenberg

A fine print of a Holy Family, about 15×18 inches, has a middle tone of fair blue and a shadow tint of full rich green.

From Project Gutenberg

And so intense was the light shining from the sea that I was enabled to read with ease the fine print of a newspaper.

From Project Gutenberg

But she presently simplified the matter by putting aside all that were decidedly too large, or too small, or too fine print.

From Project Gutenberg

I read each little page and its small, fine print as if my life depended upon its reading.

From Project Gutenberg